This Darth-Vader-grade villainy is just inexcusable. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: June 9, 2002 - June 15, 2002 Archives] Reference
His long success in villainy made him at last lay aside his wonted caution. From Wordnik.com. [Downfall of Robespierre] Reference
One particularly memorable act of villainy is when Ultron 19 slaughtered the population of the fictional state Slorernia. From Wordnik.com. [Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more] Reference
Unbreakable, and I love the idea of villainy born of deep neediness. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Snob] Reference
Part of Doom’s villainy is that he hates Richards for irrational reasons. From Wordnik.com. [No Trilogy for Marvel’s First Family : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.] Reference
Peter was his last resort -- that one so good and so clear-headed had not flared up at once over the villainy was the severest blow of all. From Wordnik.com. [Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero] Reference
Exactly what kind of villainy had yet to be discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]
Worse, Gorner lacks focus -- he can't quite decide what kind of villainy he wants to get up to. From Wordnik.com. [Bond Barely Lives Twice] Reference
It takes a certain kind of villainy to demand that kind of attention. From Wordnik.com. [Mania News Feed] Reference
Italian form of villainy which is considered both too clever and too diabolical for an Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
It's the kind of villainy that can turn tree-huggers into water boarders, and saints into noose-knotting vigilantes. From Wordnik.com. [dailypress.com - Breaking news] Reference
With these words, Dr. Curt Connors, the man who would be The Lizard, ushered a new kind of villainy into Spider-Man's life. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
She somehow bypasses that kind of villainy which stirs our desire for condign revenge - another of cinema's potent satisfactions. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
This caused him many sleepless nights, spent in speculating upon the kind of villainy those estimable personages were hatching now. From Wordnik.com. [Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river] Reference
Clarinda was naturally deeply wounded by his marriage, and her reproaches of "villainy" led to a breach which was only gradually bridged. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns How To Know Him] Reference
The villainy of these questions was in the innuendo. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It's an anodyne name for a real bit of financial villainy. From Wordnik.com. [Digging into finance's pay dirt: The risky business of payday loans and more] Reference
His sting had been well pointed, but his villainy was loss. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
He does not know that I am aware of all his foulness and villainy. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
For such a villainy, a million years was not too long to seek vengeance!. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
And by an acme of villainy flatterers do not always spare even themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
"What shrewd, far-seeing villainy!" muttered Monte-Cristo, between his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
On their beneficence or villainy could depend the fate of the world as we know it. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Jacobson: Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report-Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place] Reference
The stupendous villainy and depravity of this man's character will appear hereafter. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
But he's not very good at villainy, and he's got competition, so he gets no respect. From Wordnik.com. ['Despicable Me': Oddly Adorable] Reference
I know it well! "he said;" I know all their black villainy, and I am prepared for it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You've made him your enemy -- a dangerous enemy -- an 'he ain't no tenderfoot in villainy. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
From Dante to Mark Twain, this particular brand of villainy has fired the literary imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Quayle And 'Family Values'] Reference
He had embarked in a scheme of villainy, but had been beaten at his own game by sharper rascals. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
All imaginable schemes of villainy were concocted and executed there, and with perfect impunity, too. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
There was never in the world a better place for secret dwelling and villainy and all the rest than Skunk's Misery. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
But, as one Polish commentator put it in the current debate, the positive side of the story "doesn't neutralize in any way our villainy.". From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting A Massacre] Reference
But all that the outsider sees is a weak, debased-looking man whose vices should soon end his days even if he escapes the lamas 'villainy. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
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